Little Rock Like most people, I’m pretty sure the quality of my life is directly improved in proportion to my ability to avoid this strangely named thing called “webinars.” Surely, that’s a weapon that is used in some old Star Wars movie, not an organizing tool? I’m not going to change my mind about webinars, …
Tag: hospitals
Using Local Property Taxes to Push Hospitals on Charity Care
New Orleans John Bouman, the President of the Sargent Shriver Poverty Law Center based in Chicago was my guest on Wade’s World recently on KABF/FM talking about a number of subjects but especially the handles for pushing nonprofit hospitals to provide care for lower income families as part of their nonprofit status and especially their federal …
Hospitals Gone Wild
New Orleans There’s one thing that Paul Kiel, reporter for ProPublica.org, Steven Brill, author of the new book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics and Backroom Deals and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican from Iowa, and I can all agree on about healthcare, and that’s the simple fact that …